Biden marketing campaign co-chair on Biden reminiscence

President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign nationwide co-chair Mitch Landrieu on Sunday fired again at considerations raised by Particular Counsel Robert Hur surrounding Biden’s alleged psychological deterioration.

“They’re not even close to being the same cases,” Landrieu mentioned Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” responding to comparisons between Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and Biden’s respective investigations surrounding the mishandling of classified documents.

“But that’s not what the most egregious thing is about this report,” Landrieu continued. “It is this ad hominem attack that questioned the president’s capacity … I’ve known [Biden] for 30 years. I have met with him personally, I’ve met with him with two people, five people, 10 people. I have been on trips with him crisscrossing the country, rebuilding America based on this incredible infrastructure bill that was passed. And I’m telling you, this guy’s tough. He’s smart.”

The feedback observe an investigation by Particular Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into potential mishandling of U.S. labeled paperwork that would have endangered nationwide safety. Categorized paperwork have been stored by Biden within the storage of his Delaware residence after the conclusion of his second time period as vice chairman in 2017, the report famous. In the end, whereas the report maintained the dangers raised by the storage of nationwide paperwork in Biden’s residence, the president didn’t commit any felony wrongdoing, the report concluded.

The report went a step additional in citing the president’s allegedly “poor memory,” which Biden denied in a nationwide tackle final week.

“My memory has not gotten worse,” Biden said in the televised address, simply hours after Hur’s report was launched. “…I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing.”

The nationwide tackle reignited efforts in Washington to presumably change the highest of the Democratic ticket as voters have change into more and more involved about Biden’s age, recent polling has indicated.

Landrieu additionally fired again at efforts to alter the Democratic ticket, citing Biden’s resilience all through his profession.

“Biden’s accomplishments have been second to none,” Landrieu mentioned. “The one thing Biden is never going to do — count on this — he is never going to quit.”

Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made comparable remarks on “Meet the Press” Sunday, citing his private experiences working with Biden.

“I have met with the president many times over the course of the past three years,” Mayorkas mentioned. “I prepare intensely for those meetings … He is probing and detailed and focused on the mission.”